Gaza: News, Stories & Official Statements

What you need to know about the United Nations response to the conflict in the Middle East.

1 November

  • As General Assembly Emergency Session on Gaza Enters Fourth Day, Calls Intensify for Security Council Action, ‘Immediate and Sustained Humanitarian Truce’ (UNGA)
  • UN relief chief: The crisis in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory is a global crisis (OCHA)
  • Statement by UNICEF on the deaths and injuries of children in Jabaliya camp (UNICEF)
  • “UN Security Council in Review” newsletter highlights Middle East as most frequently discussed issue in October (UNSC)
  • In first Gaza visit: UNRWA Commissioner-General renews calls for a humanitarian ceasefire and a scale up of the humanitarian operation (UNRWA)
  • Rise in intimidation, settler violence in the West Bank, warns OCHA (UN News)
  • Voices from Gaza: Amani’s story of loss (UN Women)
  • Nearly 2,000 Palestinians displaced amid settler violence since 2022; 43% since 7 October 2023 (oPt OCHA)

31 October

  • Secretary-General’s statement – on the situation in Gaza.
  • UN Human Rights Office Statement expressed concern about reports of Palestinian journalists killed under Israeli bombardment and reiterated that journalists are civilians and should not be targeted.
  • High Commissioner’s statement to the United Nations Security Council (UNHCR)
  • Executive Director statement on the situation in Gaza (UNFPA)
  • Toll of Israel-Palestine crisis on children ‘beyond devastating’ (UN News)
  • Gaza has become a graveyard for thousands of children (UNICEF)

30 October

  • UNRWA rejects claims of holding up supplies in Gaza warehouses (UNRWA)
  • UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell’s remarks at UN Security Council on humanitarian situation in Gaza (UNICEF)
  • Lisa Doughten’s remarks to the Security Council on behalf of Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths (OCHA)
  • UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini address to the UN Security Council Meeting on the situation in the Middle East. (UNRWA)
  • Gaza hospitals hanging on by a thread: UN humanitarians (UN News)

29 October

  • Statement of ICC Prosecutor Karim A. A. Khan KC from Cairo on the situation in the State of Palestine and Israel (ICC)
  • Secretary-General’s joint press encounter with the Prime Minister of Nepal, Mr. Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Prachanda’ (SG)
  • With conflict entering fourth week, WFP warns of growing hunger and desperation in Gaza (WFP)
  • Thousands break into UNRWA warehouses in Gaza, taking wheat flour and basic items. (UNRWA)

28 October

  • UN Secretary-General’s statement – on the situation in Gaza (SG)
  • Gaza: Continued violence is not the answer (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk)
  • Civilians, patients, and health workers in Gaza spend night in darkness and fear (WHO)

The UN Charter remains humanity’s best hope for peace.

Amid geopolitical divisions, member countries must uphold it & ensure that the UN lives up to what it was meant to be:

A forum for solutions.

A guardian of international law.

And a force for peace and security.

António Guterres

Secretary-General of the United Nations (27 May 2026)

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